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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
Sherman Himself Converted.

The new South has won another con-
vert in the person of Senator John
Sherman, author of 'The Bloody
Shirt" "Counted Out" s'Lo, the
Poor Negro" and other popular works.
Before Mr.. Sherman started on his trip
he read Mr.. Grady's utterances with
a cynical smile. After returning from
the South he condescended to say that
the better element of the whites was
disguised with the action of the pro-
prietor of hotel who refused to admit
negroes to see the Senator, and told
how he saw a Governor shaking hands
with a party of colored men. This is.
indeed' a victory. A change has come
over Senator Sherman's spirit, and,
after another visit, one may expect to
see him make quit-claim deed of his
bloody shirt to Senator Ht ar, remodel
his speeches, and go before the coun-
try as the champion Of the rights Of
the eotton-helt Chicago Nssc.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28

Mr.. Blaine is in trouble again over a
speech. When he appeared before the
st. Louis Chamber of Commerce the
other day, he pitched upon the late
Thomas Jefferson as a safe topic for
few remarks, and when he got through,
he probably supposed that he was all
right for once. But the st. Louis
papers published stenographic reports
of his speech, and those reports made
the historian speak of Jefferson as
s'that great man, who, in the annals Of
American greatness, should stand next
to Washington. These reports were
no sooner circulated than good Repub-
lican organs, like the Dayton CO.,
Journal, began to make such remarks
as this: "Has Mr.. Blaine forgotten
Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the
glories of emancipation and the infamy
of the pro-slavery State-rights resolu-
tions of Thomas Jeffersonp" OF
course, Mr.. Blaine will explain that it
was all the fault of the stenographer,
and that he really paid hearty tribute
to Lincoln which the shorthand re-
porter unaccountably failed to CATCH
NJ Y. Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
The Roaring of an Alligator.

Probably few persons have ever heard
of ''the roaring of an alligator" II
heard it myself" says Mr.. Simson, ION
one occasion in the case of huge
beast who appeared to be following a
female of his Species" The animal
was swimming very rapidly, diving
and rebounding up to the surface of the
water. Mr.. Simson was in a small Rob
Roy canoe, and remained still to watch
his maneuvers. Immediately the alli-
gator saw the canoe, he "came towards
it, roaring like bull at each bound
above the water.'' As he was diving,
Mr.. Simson (who was unarmed) forced
the canoe straight over him, and so
escaped. "Curiously enough he
writes, ''not half an hour after this
episode, an alligator jumped from a
steep bank over my canoe. and only
just cleared it, as was distractedly pad
ding along under the shore, and mad
vertantly startled the reptile above me.
.-TraUeLs in Ecuador.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
ASSAILED BY ROBBERS.

A Louisville Servant Fatally Beaten by
Thieves in Broad Daylight.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 22.-A probable
murder was perpetrated in the broad light
of day in one OF the most fashiona-
BILE resident portions of this city
yesterday morning. About ten o'clock
Mrs. A. Y. johnson, the wife Of
her home on Brook street in company
servant girl, who is white and
about twenty-four years of age. It
appears the latter accompanied Mrs.
johnson only short distance upon
some special mission, after which
she returned. to the house. Shortly
after this a little colored girl living
next door to the Johnson's family went
into the kitchen of the house and
discovered blood upon the floor, and
signs of disorder. She called for Jennie,
but receiving no answer started up the
back stairway to her room. There the
child discovered the servant lying
upon the floor, horribly beaten about the
head and breathing her last. Two susp+
cious characters are known to have
been loafing across the street when
Mrs. johnson and the children. went
out, and it is thought that
they entered the house and were discov-
cred upon the return of the servant Jennie
Bowner. A poker was found with the
hair and blood of man upon it, and it is
supposed the woman opposed the burglars
with the above results.
Mr.. johnson and physician were sum-
mond and every thing was done, but the
girls skull is broken in three places and
recovery is considered impossible. At a
late hour Miss Bowman recovered con-
nrih hor fs
The police were furnished descriptions,
and are guarding every way of escape.
Up to midnight they had not been capt
rrei
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
PROHIBITION IN IOWA.

Governor Larrabee Writes = Letter in
Which He Explains the Workings of the
Law I'm the Hawkeye State.
DEs MONIES, Ia, April Ex-Governor
Larrabee has written letter in reply to
an inquiry from the secretary of the "Cen-
tral Committee of the Prohibitory Cam
paign" of Texas in regard to the work.
ings of prohibition in Iowa The Govern
or says that IN eighty out of ninety mine
counties of the State prohibition is en-
forced, and in the remaining nineteen
counties it is partially enforced; that
no property has been deprecated
by its enforcement, as saloons
make room for better and more legitimate
business; that the enforcement Of the
law has had no noticeable effect up
on the population beyond causing the re-
moval from the State of some incurable
dispensers and perhaps incurable consum-
ers. The effects of prohibition upon the
general welfare and habits of the people,
he says, are decidedly wholesome. Prohi-
bition sentiment is on the increase, and
there is no doubt that prohibition is an
established power in Iowa.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
Far from Disastrous.

Next to the sectional issue in 1884
the Republican orators and organs
pinned their faith in success to the ar
gument that the Democratic victory
would bring hard times. They had
nothing to say about the kind of times
that Republican Administration had
brought; but they bawled vociferously
in the public ear their predictions of
the ruin that would follow Cleveland's s
election. Some of the dimensions Of
this "ruin" have just been ascertained
through inquiries made by Bradstreet's
as to the condition of the work and
wages. As result of these inquiries
Bradstreet's states that "there are at
least 400, 600 more industrial employees
at work than in 1885, and that wages
have, on the whole. together with full
time now, as against reduced hours Of
labor then, brought the receipts of la
Dor generally to the level of 1881-82.
In some instances they have been ad-
vanced still higher"
The following table. from the same
source gives some very interesting COM
parison as to the changes in sundry in
dustries since 1882:
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
GROWING SERIOUS.

The Anti-Corn Protection Movement In
France and the Consequent Rise in the
Price of Bread Causing Great Anxiety.
LONDON, April 23.-Paris specials repre-
sent the anti-corn protection movement as
suddenly growing serious. 1t is believed
that the intense feeling against the Cob
let Ministry may compel the Cabinet to
place their portfolios at the disposition
of the President Of the Republic and
bring about the formation of Free Corn
Cabinet. The price of bread, according to
reports collected at the principal centers
of population, has risen from thirty five to
fifty per cent. A small loaf, formerly five
sous, is generally retailed at seven sous.
The agitation among the working classes,
who are always easily provoked to excit-
able demonstrations, is spreading rapidly.
Upwards of 500 kilograms and petitions
were received yesterday at the Ministry of
the Interior, demanding the restriction of
the price of bread under severe penalties
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
The Conscientious Fireman.

Young Wife, know very well,
mother, that my husband no longer
loves me.
Mother-How do you know it, my
daughterp
''You know he belongs to fire COM
panyP''
Yes"
"Well, before we were married,
when we were courting and the fire.
bell rang, he never went to the fire. He
said that he would rather pay the
fine"
'Well, what does he do now?"
"Why, now, at the very first sound OF
the bell, he says duty calls him. and he
is off and away in three shakes of a
sleeps tail. .''-Ieras Sifti,sgs.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
LATER NEWS.

THE trouble among the Comanches and
Kiowa Indians has been settled. The re-
bellious members of the latter band have
been returned to their reservation in the
custody of Government troops.
AN extra session of the Indiana Legisla-
ture is probable.
CHAs. P. SCHOONER, of Cincinnati, killed
himself with butcher knife at Day o.
AT Burnside, KY, Thomas Nelson shot
and fatally wounded George Hicks.
AT Peru, Ind, six-year-old son OF John
Fincher was shot and mortally wounded
by an unknown assassin.
NEW Boston, O., thinks it has struck
silver mine.
COLONEL LAMONT is sure that Cleveland
has never expressed himself about re-
nomination.
In Novia Scotia Assembly the ''annexa-
I tion to the United States resolution" was
lost-yea 1, nays 26.::
NEAR Hagerstown, Nd, Mrs. Catherine
Cump and her invalid son, Carlyle, were
fatally shot. Another son, Emanuel, is
| under suspicion.
In st. Landry Parish, La, two sons of
| Mrs Ernest Fusilier, while suffering with
fever, were given strychnine by their
| died.
SERGEANr-AT-ARMs HENNEssY, of the
Texas Senate, was sentenced to two
wears in the penitentiary for forgery.
The Kentucky Central railroad was sold
at receivers sale on the 23d to G. P. Hunt
ington ct al The price was 81 100000.
| MARY MCCARTY was found dead at Cleve
land, having been strangled to death by
some unknown fiend who attempted to
ravish her.
The English newspapers of st. Louis
have voluntarily advanced the price of
composition from forty to forty three cents
per thousand.
BY an accident on the Cascade division
of the Northern Pacific railroad, near
Chelum, w. T., six laborers were killed
and eighteen injured.
THE operation of the Interstate Com
merce law has compelled the abandonment
of business at Sprague's box factory at
Swansea, N. H.
IT is intimated in the U. s. Treasury De-
partment that the balance of the three-per-
cent. loan outstanding, about $4,000, 600,
} will rremain undisturbed until after
June 80.
IT has developed that E. L. N. Simmons
arrested for burning the Hotel Del Monte,
Monterey, Cal, of which he was manager,
is an ex-convict.
THE Detroit stove molders will not strike
, at present
I THE funeral of Lieutenant Danenhower
took place at Oswego, N. Y, on the 2th.
The propeller Jennie king, that left
. Chicago Friday night, ID thought to be lost
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
WIT AND WISDOM.

Sunday is the golden clasp which .
binds together the volume OF the
week"
When is frame house not q frame
house? When an earthquake makes it
rock.
To the well-balanced mind, fame
consists in knowing one has SO lived
as to deserve the praise of others.
"A man without brains frequently
has the most imposing head-stones
when he is dead.-N. o. Pscayurse.
docs your mother wear switchP'
asked al inquisiti-e lady. ..Yes." re-
piled little Johnny, ''but she always
uses her slipper"
Little boy (studying his Sunday
school lesson)- PA, how do you spell
PharaohP Pa (thoughts elsewhere)-
F-a-r-o.-M Y Sun.
-"Say, Jim, do you carry pocket
piece?" '.Yes, most of the time. !"
.sWhat is it, gold or silverp''
'.Neither, it's a pawn-ticket. "-Dctroit
Free Press.
There is something in this little
fellow I like," said an appreciative
visitor to young hopeful he was trot-
ting on his knees. "Say. now," said
| the boy, "how'd you know I'd swal-
lowed p''-Boston Budget.
By utilizing the waste products
of any industry there is often made a
greater profit than from the main bus
mess itself. 1t is not always what is
earned, but what is saved that makes
one lich.-American Poultry Journal.
The Way to Success
| Genius alone can never make one great,
| There must be industry to second skill,
| Faith, tireless perseverance, strength Of Will
Ere triumph and success upon thee wait.
| Anon.
-Estelle-Andy you are going to leave
me soon, ,Augustusp gustus-My love.
I would willingly give ten years Of my
life, if could stay longer. But if I
don't go 1 shall be find ten cents fox
being late at our debating society
Independent.
Insist on yourself; never initiate.
Your own gift you can present every
moment with the cumulative force of
whole life's cultivation; but Of the
adopted talent OF another You have
only an extemporaneous, half-posses-
sion. That which each can do best
none but his Maker can teach him.
Emerson.
| Husband imp asked the assessor,
cheerfully. '.No," answered the wo-
man, che isn't home" Expecting
him soonp" asked the assessor. s'Well, !"
the woman replied, thoughtfully. 81
don't exactly; I've been lookin' for him
seventeen years, and he hasn't showed
up yet. You travel round good deal,
and if you see man who looks as
though he'd make pretty good hus.
band, tell him Pm still a-waitin' and
send him along. How's your wife?''
But the assessor wrote something in
his book and without speaking slid
softly away, with the cautious haste o.
a man walking over q thin plses In chs
| iee.,-aRidsttss
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
Jhe Gatuu &tluOfrat.
RELIGIOUS ANp EDucAT.oNAL


: Charles Pratt is building in Brook
lyn the largest industrial school in the
world.
"A Christian Endeavor Society has
been organized in the Talladega Col
lege, Ala.
They are enlarging the Chinese
public school in San Francisco to ac-
commodate the large increase in the
number of pupils.
1T is estimated that 1000 young
women earn their living as governesses
in private English famip> with salaries
at 800 year.
The Jewish Mission of the Presby-
terian Church of Ireland is about to
erect a girls school-honse in Damascus.
at cost of $4,000.
Marie Louise Reques, a young
French woman, has received the de-
gree of Bachelor of Letters from the
Faculty of Literature at Rennes. This
is new departure for conservative
Brittany.-Ch Chicago Herald.
The Pennsylvania railway has sent
check for 81, 900 to the Presbyterian
Hospital in Philadelphia, as recogni-
ton of services rendered to its employees
by the hospital.-U United Presbyteria".
The King of the Tonga Islands has
closed the Wesleyan College at Tonga,
and in consequence of his hostility the
Wesleyans are leaving his dominfons
and going to the Fiji Islands.
DIR. Henry D. Coggswell, the San
Francisco millionaire, has given one
million dollars for the endowment Of q
school in San Francisco, where trades
will be taught to any boy or girl who is
qualified to be admitted as student.
N. 7. Sum-.
"A new society in England is called
.The Speak-no-evil Society," Its mem-
bers are enjoined before speaking evil
of any one to ask themselves three
questions-Is it truep Is lit kindP Is it
necessary Four texts from the New
Testament bearing on the subject are
printed at the foot Of the membership
card Czeveland Leader.
The fiftieth anniversary of the mis-
sion to the Kols of Central India, es-
tablislled by Pastor Gossner, of Ger
many, in 1886, has been celebrated.
In 1865 it had seventeen missionaries.
eleven ordained native helpers, 81 1928
native Christians, and 1865 commu-
nicants, with boys school, normal
school and theological seminary with
283 students.
/ "A good friend in Pennsylvania has
just sent Bishop Mallalieu a draft for
5000, to be applied to the completion
of the new building now going up for
the accommodation of the New Orleans
university. If hundred such checks
or drafts should be sent the bishop for
educational work in the south, itwould
be wise use of money. he wants q
million dollars for the work. It is the
hope Of the SOUTHLAND " Chris
tiGn 4dUocdte.
Rev. Lewis Davidson has been in
vestigating the history of the progress
of the Free Church in Edinburgh. He
finds that in 1850 she had 1900 mem
bers; in 1880. 21, ,OO0Aa growth of two
thirds in thirty years During these
years the population of Edinburgh in
creased by one-third, the Free Church
| by two-thirds. In 1850 there were
twenty-six charges within the city
bounds; in 1880 there were forty-one
charges. The church is growing
among the middle and lower classes,
but not in the West End.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
WHOLE NUMBER lO43.
WANT TO SHAKE HIM.

Tho Republican Party Want to Get hid
OF Blaine, But Don't Know Exactly
How to Do It.
It looks as if the Republican party
would like very much to have some
body help it let go of Mr.. Blaine. In
1884, it was sure he was the greatest
man of any age or country. It COM
pared him with Washington, Lincoln,
Socrates, Plato, and even the Apostle
Paul; and in each case the other SUBJ
ject of the comparison came out sec
ond best.
But defeat had q somewhat disen-
chanting effect. The charm was
cracked if not broken. It seems now to
be broken. One after another the most
devoted Blainiacs are seeking some
new love. Awhile ago the favorite
seemed to be Allison. Now it is Sher-
man. It is even said that Whitelaw
Reid has written letter declaring that
Blaine must be intellectually aban-
doned, and Sherman whole-heartedly
taken up. The story is confirmed.
Sherman is just the man--for the
nomination. He is rich, like Blaine,
and like Blaine personally interested in
several of the great corporations which
seek Government favoritism. He is not
magnetic" but he has even more of
the magnetic metals than Blaine, and
for campaign purposes he has them
better invested. He can ''work" sew
eral of his enterprises in his own inter
est. He may not be generous with his
cash, but so determined a candidate
with such big barrel ought to think
nothing of million or so. There are
various channels where it would help
to keep him from being deadhead in
in the enterprise.
The party is going to need barrel
candidate worse than it ever has. II
has lost the United States Treasury,
lost the Pension Department, lost the
post-ofices and lost the bloody shirt.
Hence the need of barrel.
They are very anxious to get in
again, however, and not scrupulous al
to the methods. They will throw
Blaine overheard, if necessary. Wheth
er he and his friends will throw then
overheard remains to be tested. 1t i,
predicted that he will make it mutual
and very cordial. There are still
enough Blaine men to make it rather
drizzly for any other candidate. They
think Blaine is far the strongest candi
date, and they will at best have LITTLE
heart in the campaign Of rival.
Still the party as whole would like
to shake him. 1t hardly knows how
and goes about it with visible awk
wardness. But it may succeed, and al
any rate it will have a very interesting
time trying. There is little more
than year to do it in. If 'twere done
when tits done 'twere W ell 'twere don,
quickly. Otherwise the Chicago scenes
of 1880 are likely to be repeated.-De'
| M0iees Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
FoREIcN INTELLIGENCE.

The death OF Rear Admiral Adolphe
Charles Emile Bonet, Of the French navy,
is announced He formerly commanded
the French naval station in the Pacific
Ocean. He was eighty-four years old.
Six Of the prisoners implicated in the plot
of March IS upon the life Of the Gear have
been sentenced to death and the remainder
to imprisonment for life.
Russia has issued four per cent. inter-
nal loan amounting to 100, ,OOO, 600 roubles at
eighty-four per cent. The imposition of the
passport tax has been temporarily sus-
pended.
The bill for the total prohibition Of the
liquor traffic was defeated in the Newfound-
land Assembly on the 21st by the casting
Of vote by the Speaker.
A Victoria (B. c. dispatch states that
the schooner Active, having on board five
Swedes and twenty-eight Clayaqui Indians,
had been wrecked of the coast Of Oregon,
and all were lost. The Active was engaged
in general coast trade, and had a valuable
cargo, which was uninsured.
Three hundred Mormon recruits sailed
from London for New York on the 21st.
A sharp shock of earthq was ex-
perienced on the 21st over the whole of the
island of Jersey, OF the French coast. No
damage was done.
One hundred and seventy barrels of
whisky, marked vinegar" belonging to
E. & A. Robitailles of Quebec, have been
seized for an infraction Of the excise laws
in that city.
A freight train going west on the Grand
Trunk railway went through bridge near
Morrisburg, Ont, on the 22d. The engineer
aud fireman were killed and brakeman
was badly injured. Thirteen loaded cars
were piled into the gorge and smashed to
atoms. The bridge was inspected only a
few days ago and pronounced safe.
In the Dominion House of Commons on
the 22d resolution was introduced by Mr..
Curran, member from Montreal, expressing
profound regret at the introduction Of the
Coercion bill in the English Parliament,
and protesting against its adoption as sub
versive of the rights and liberties of the
Queens subjects in Ireland.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
Rayard on the Diplomatic Service.

WASHINGTON, April 22.-Secretary Bay.
ard, in an interview on the diplomatic
service, says that for the most part our
foreign representatives are pleasure-seek-
ers. In his opinion the pay of the members
of the Diplomatic Corps should be fixed at
such rate that large private fortune
would not be necessary to enable repre-
sentative to sustain the honor of the
United States abroad; that liberal allow
ances should be made for expenses and
people who have been in the corps for a
certain period, he thinks, should be al
lowed to retire at a fair proportion of their
active service salary
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28

MONTREAL, Can, April 22.-The Jesuit
Fathers Of the province intend to fight for
the restitution of their con fiscated estates,
and being unable to obtain the necessary
authority from Rome to negotiate with the
Government they are seeking to obtain
legal status by being incorporated by the
Legislature. Their claim is estimated at
g. OOO OOO
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
Hard to Believe.

..Read of that case in Jersey Cityp"
he queried of a patrolman on Griswold
street.
ssWhich?"
why, a policeman slept seventeen
days and nights on stretch"
Don't believe any thing of the sort!
was the blunt rejoinder. "I've tried it
myself dozen different times, and 1
never got in over fifteen minutes before
the roundsman woke me up."-Detroit
Free Press.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
Must Obey the Mayors Order.

NEW YORK, April 22.-About 800 store
keepers, clerks and others were arrested
yesterday morning by the police for
sweeping dust into the street in defiance
of the mandate of Mayor Hewitt. In the
police courts the accused were either fined
or sharply reprimanded by the magis-
trates
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
A Mississippi Hail-storm.

ROLLING FORK, Miss, April ga hail
storm ragged in this section yesterday aft
ernoon for thirteen minutes. Hail stones
larger than hens eggs fell, and holes were
knocked in roofs Of houses and trees were
partly stripped of their foliage.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28
1t may be expedient to prohi

1t may be expedient to prohibit
American vessels from going into Ca
madam ports for any purpose whatever,
except for shelter in stress of weather.
To limit the operation of the act to a
new measure of protection" to par
ticular trade would be putting upon
the consumers of fish the entire burden
and cost of the difficulty. 1t is graft
flying to know that President Cleveland
does not take so low view of his pub
lie duties, and that he will not assent
in advance to such an act of injustice.
Indeed, his letter may be construed as
promise that when he does act he
will contrive that the burden and cost
shall be fairly distributed, and that no
class or section shall get the advantage
OF any other class or section by reason
of what is at best a serious public mis-
fortune.-M Y Post.